Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

Good work

Finish is perfect

Had to take the gearbox and sump off to get at the rear main crankshaft seal. They're notorious for giving up the ghost.

Treated myself to an uprated clutch kit while I was at it.

I'm planning on changing every seal and gasket that I can.

The timing belt side will be next on the hit list once this side is sorted out.

Looks aluminum which is odd enough.

Always forget B Series engines use a mechanical distributor. There must be upgrades for that now?

It is indeed ceramic coated, so is the downpipe. It's custom from there on back. I absolute didn't want an exhaust that would drone or be too loud. It's just right imho.

You're absolutely spot on about the seals too. They're all shot and I'm replacing as many as I can. The two crank seals are a massive job as you can see. The drive shaft seals are gone too, they're on route as we speak.

What suspension on the prelude

It left the factory with about 185bhp. I'll be hoping to get it up to about 210 with a bit of luck but we'll see.

Not as big job as Mr Toast above, in fact a tiny one :)

So, I put the key in my door and the lock cylinder/tumbler came out with the key! Had to remove the handle to re-insert a pin that had fallen down. The cylinder was in a bad way, 39 years of gunk had locked basically all bar 1 or 2 of the 10 wafers into the key in position.

Soaked it in penetrating fluid overnight and gently tapped the wafers out, very carefully noting the order by placing them into a tablet blister pack. The I knocked said blister back onto the ground!

Wafers should be popped out by a spring when no key inserted:

Partway through reassembly. The pin on the part on the right is what fell out.

Finished:

Actually, I found it very therapeutic :) But pro tip - don't knock all your wafers and springs off the table. Impressive stuff with your jobs!

Took the day off today and got stuck into this. It was tricky asf to do on my own using an engine hoist and a trolly jack but I just kept at it.

I've earned a few cold Guinness and I can't wait to crack one open.

I'm very tempted to take tomorrow off and get all the seals on the timing belt side done as well.

EDIT. Sorry about the sideways image again!

Some day for it, you working outside?

That is the dream, I would love a spot like that myself.

Is there space for a ramp? You can get a decent two post for less than 2k now.

3 lads going in 700 each would get a very nice lift, I wouldn't be without one now. I wouldn't do any work on the ground these days. As soon as I put on in at home I'd get every friend looking to use it

I'm stuck waiting on seals so I decided to strip the suspension and brakes to to clean and refurb them.

I sprayed both front inner arches in bitumen coating after a good scrub too.

I'm waiting on some new bushes and upper ball joints to land and I'll press them into the upper control arm when they do.

Everything else got scrubbed and painted too, I'm really looking forward to putting them all back in place.

Should be interesting to see how it handles now with all the new bits and pieces.

@Titzon Toast what seats in the prelude